By AP The number of monkeypox cases reported globally dropped by 21 percent in the last week, reversing a month-long trend of rising infections and a possible signal the outbreak in Europe may be starting to decline, according to a World Health Organization report issued Thursday. The UN health agency reported 5,907 new weekly cases and…
By Halligan Agade According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), more than 50 million women in Africa become pregnant each year and are at risk of one of the deadliest malaria parasites globally. Presently, Africa is still completely reliant on imported drugs to treat malaria but that could soon change. The UN health agency recently issued a…
Reuters Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) launched Google Wallet in South Africa on Tuesday, as the tech giant tries to gain a foothold in the country’s rapidly growing digital payments space. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the shift to digital transactions and people increasingly prefer making contactless payments via their smart devices. High smartphone penetration has also helped adoption…
Reuters An entrepreneur in Ivory Coast has created the country’s first locally-made smartphone, which aims to improve accessibility with voice commands in local languages for users who can’t read and write. The phone, called “Open G”, went on sale last month in the West African country. It can understand commands and respond in 16 of…
By David Ochieng Mbewa Determine Girls FC of Liberia and Egypt’s Wadi Degla FC became the latest clubs to qualify for this year’s CAF Women’s Champions League after winning their respective qualifiers. Determine Girls FC defeated US Parcelles Assainies of Senegal 1-0 in Monrovia to be crowned WAFU A champions. It will be the Liberian side’s…
Sofia Christensen, Reuters News More than 200 Ebola vaccine doses have been brought to the Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern city of Beni, where a new case of the virus was confirmed this week, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday. The latest confirmed case has been genetically linked to a 2018-2020 outbreak in North…
VOA NEWS A new case of Ebola virus has been confirmed in the city of Beni in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the country’s National Institute for Biomedical Research said on Monday. Genetic sequencing showed the case is linked to the 2018-2020 outbreak in North Kivu province, which killed nearly 2,300 people, the institute said…
Elias Biryabarema, Reuters News Stanbic Bank Uganda’s pre-tax profit for the first six months of 2022 rose more than 7% from the same period last year, helped by cost-control measures, the bank said on Monday. Uganda’s largest lender by assets earned 218.3 billion shillings ($56.69 million) in the first half of 2022 compared to 203.2 billion…
Staff Writer, Daily News Egypt The Arab Monetary Fund (AMF) expects the Egyptian economy to achieve a growth of 5.5% in FY2022/23, compared to the 6.2% expected for FY2021/2022. The fund indicated in its newly issued Arab Economic Outlook 2022 Report that the Egyptian economy achieved a growth of 3.3% during FY2020/21 as a result of…
Promit Mukherjee, Reuters News South Africa’s unemployment rate edged lower to 33.9% in the second quarter of 2022 from 34.5% in the first quarter, the statistics agency said on Tuesday. Statistics South Africa said the number of unemployed people totalled 7.994 million people in the three months to end-June, compared with 7.862 million people in the…
